FLOSS Usability Sprint V is happening November 2-4, 2007 at Google in Mountain View. This one is special for a number of reasons. First, it’s the fifth one. Second, our project list is once again superb, including Firefox, Chandler, Socialtext, and WiserEarth. Third, it’s the first sprint being primarily organized by members of this burgeoning [...]
A few years ago, Mike Ozburn and I were talking about how to catalyze the Digital Identity community. Mike offered a fantastic analogy, which I’ve since extended and retold repeatedly. (MO0) Suppose you have a thousand people. Their job? Solve a puzzle with a million pieces. What’s the best way to proceed with this [...]
The first time I met Howard Rheingold, he suggested we go on a walk. A few weeks later, I met Howard at his house, which lies at the foot of Mount Tamalpais in Mill Valley, and we walked and talked. It was wonderful. (MND) Ever since I moved to San Francisco a few years [...]
For the last exercise of my guest stint at Alexander Laszlo and Kathia Laszlo‘s Evolutionary Leadership class a few weeks ago, I decided to have the group come up with a working definition of “collaboration,” as well as thoughts on patterns of and metrics for effective collaboration. If this sounds boringly familiar to regular readers [...]
